Pencil clip device



Aug. 28, 1923. 1,466,203

W. H. BURNETT PENCIL CLIP DEVICE Filed Feb. 28 .1923

ATTORNEY Patented Aug. as, 1923.

n staresh itidi WILLIAM E. :snnnn'rr, DFMOUNfi errY, inrssoonr.

- rnncrr; earn 'nnvicnj Application filed February 28, 3.923. 7 Serial No. 621,955.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VVILLrAMl-I. BURNETT,

a'citizen of the United States, residing at Mound City, in the county'of Holt and- State oi Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Pencil 'Clip Device, 0% which the following is a specification. I'

My invention has reference to improvements in that class of clip devices commonly used on pencils, fountain pens and similar articles and which are especially designed for conveniently holding the pencil or pen.

in the pocket of the person carrying the same, and primarily my invention has for its purpose to provide an improved con struction of clip device of the general character stated, stamped or otherwise formed of a spring metal blank and which, when operatively applied,,will effectively retain the article in the pocket and at the same time permit its being readily removed and replaced without injury to the pocket.-

Another and important object of my in vention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and easily made-clip device in which the members provided for gripping the edge of the pocket are especially designed to prevent side slipping 015 the clip along the pocket and avoid the danger of the clip being 7 easily disconnected from the said pocket edge.

With other objects in view that will hereinafter. be apparent, my invention is -a pencil or pen clip device that embodies .the

combination of parts, all of which can be explained in the following detailed description, specifically pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved clip device applied to a pencil and shown as held in a pocket.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the spring metal blank from which my improved clip device is shaped.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the clip their normal podevice, the parts being at sition.

Figure 4: is a view similar to Figure 3, the gripping or spring'e-lement being positioned to permit of fitting the clip over a pocket edge.

Figure 5 is a detail cross section, taken substantially on the line 55 of Figure 1 peculiar features of construction and novel.

and which illustrates the manner in which the pocket edge is gripped to hold the clip devices from being readily moved laterally along or removed from thefpocket edge) Figure 6 is a detail perspective view oi theclip device.

In the practical development of my irnprovedclip device the spring metal blank shown in Figure-2, includes a body-portion I 1 of sufficient width and lengthto permit of bending the'saidbody 1 to form a split tubular band 2 adapted for frictionally engaging the pencil o-r pen.

Fromthe upper end of the body 1 the blank has a straight extension of suiiicient length to permit of bending it into a spring loop 3 which, as shown, is bent to .lie along the face of the band 2. The extension oi the loop 3, at its upper end 80, is bent upon itself to produce a long spring clamping member l that eXtends some distance beyond the lower edge of the band 2and terminates in an out-turned portion 40 that. cooperates with an opposing gripper orv clamping member 5, presently again referred to. The

member 5 is also formed or" an extension 50 that constitutes a part of the blank and which continues down fromthe lower end of the split band 2 and whose opposite edges are bent outwardly, at right angles, as at 51, to produce a channeledfkeeper within' which the lower out-turned end ofthe spring clamping member 4 normally seats.

7 By forming the lower end of the split band with a downwardly; extending keeper that has side edges 51, as shown, the said edges and the clamp 10 will operate to crimp the upper edge of the pocket in the manner best shown'in Figure 5, from which'it will i be seen that the'clip deviceis held in such locked engagement with the pocket edge so that the said clip device cannot be readily Furthermore the edges 52 extend out farther at the bottom end than at the top of the vice on me pocket edge that danger of the clip becoming disconnected from the pocket is practically avoided. 7

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will be noticed that my invention provides 7 slipped laterally along the said pocket edge. V

keeper and thereby so securely hold the de a clip of an exceedingly simple and inexpensive construction and which will effectively serve its intended purposes.

l. A spring metal clip comprising a split sleeve, a spring member extended down over i the front of the split sleeve and then back up and again down to extend below the split sleeve and provide a clamping element,

and a combined clamp and keeper element projected from and extended below the split sleeve and cooperative with the spring member for engaging the edge of a pocket.

2. As a new article,a pen or pencil clip device bent to shape from s spring metal blank and con'iprising, in integral formation, at split sleeve for frietionallyengaging the pen or pencil, an extension from the upper end o'fthe split sleeve that is looped downwardl v' from the front upper end of the ill) ,split sleeve to constitute a spring loop, the

upper end of the said loop being bent back upon itself and extended downwardly beyond the lower end of the split sleeve with 7 ment. r

3. A spring metal clip composed of split tubular body, a spring clamping finger extending from the upper e lge or said body and back down below the lower edge of said body, a grooved keeper eXtendingfrom the lower edge of said body to receive said finger, and having out-standing flanges deeper at the bottom than et the topsubstantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM H. enunnrrr. 

